Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/01/22/23:38:35
Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>
> Jim Balter wrote:
> [...]
> > Frankly, those saying that emulating unix is a bad idea just don't know
> > what they are talking about. Without the unix emulation, there *are no*
> > tools. mingw32 cannot stand alone.
> [...]
>
> Put simply, the project has two ideal goals:
>
> 1) to make Unix code porting easy
> 2) to provide a free, high-quality Win32 compiler
>
> As a company that makes much of its business from Unix-based
> GNU tools, Cygnus has more inherent interest in the Unix emulation
> layer. Consequently it receives by far the most attention.
> This is why the default setup right now is more friendly towards
> the Unix porting folks than towards native Win32 programmers.
>
> That said, there are quite a few reasons why we shouldn't force
> the Unix emulation layer on people using the development tools
> for native Win32 programming. In this context, emulating Unix
> is a bad idea, even if the tools themselves depend on it.
This is semantically confused. My comment was about *dropping*
the unix emulation, not *separating* it. Of course being able to build
executables that don't need cygwin is a good idea,
and can be done now with mingw32. My comment was aimed at those
who think that doing the unix emulation *at all* is a bad idea,
is "poison", as one person put it. So, emulating unix *is not*
a bad idea, even if forcing it upon people who don't need it is.
Hopefully we can get away from debates based solely on misusing
or misunderstanding simple language.
> For now, mingw32 is the solution. Ideally, I would like to see
> this work sucked into the standard gnu-win32 distributions at some
> point in the future. So both goals are important.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Noer
> noer AT cygnus DOT com
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